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12 years ago

Quartus II DE2 board is not detecting my USB blaster!!!

Hello everyone, I have been having issues with my USB Blaster install for a while now and its becoming very frustrating not getting my board to work so please help me!!! My OS is windows 8.1 and it gave me a hell of a problem just getting to install the driver on my computer. Now that the driver is installed, I go to DE2 board programmer mode and the board is not detecting the USB blaster. I've tried adding device from edit-> add device -> cyclone II -> 'choosing correct chip' but had no luck. I'm sure some of you have had similar experiences and if you have, please help me overcome my current challenges please. Thanks.

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    12 years ago

    Hi,

    I assume you read the UserGuide and have checked the configuration of the DE2 board matches the JTAG configuration you try to use?
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    12 years ago

    With the DE2 board powered and the USB cable connected to both it and your PC, does device manager detect the USB-Blaster on the DE2 board? With device manager open you should be able to plug and unplug the USB-Blaster cable to the DE2 board and see a USB-Blaster appear and disappear accordingly.

    Providing device manager can 'see' the USB-Blaster then any higher level software, such as the DE2 board programmer, should be able to use it.

    Regards,

    Alex
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    11 years ago

    Regarding your message above, I can unplug/plug my DE2 and see it appear in the device manager. However, when I try to assign a driver (per Altera instructions and pointing to C://altera/11.1/quartus/drivers) I get the message "Windows found the driver software for your device but encountered an error while attempting to install it. The hash is not present in the specified catalog file." I can not upload my design as the quartus programmer does not see my device. I installed the software directly from the CD that came with the board. Please help!

    Georgeanne
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    11 years ago

    Alex,

    Thanks for advice, but Quartus 13.1 does not support Cyclone II. I have tried 11.1, 11.1 sp1, 11.1 sp2, but I still have the same problem!! My computer is Windows 8.

    Georgeanne